vitiated; vitiating
Definition of vitiate
1
: to make faulty or defective : impair
the comic impact is vitiated by obvious haste— William Styron
2
: to debase in moral or aesthetic status
a mind vitiated by prejudice
3
: to make ineffective
fraud vitiates a contract
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The first known use of vitiate was in 1534
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